Up to 30 detectives from the Director of Criminal Investigators have been dispatched to hunt down suspects involved in the Sh1.1 billion tender scandal at the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF).
DCI boss George Kinoti said the special team of officers is out to hunt at least 17 senior officials of the national medical fund whose phones have remained switched off since Friday when he struck at the heart of the scandal.
This emerged on Sunday as detectives swung into action and arrested suspended NHIF CEO Geoffrey Mwangi) over scam In the Sh1.1 billion contract for the provision of the integrated revenue collection services.
Mwangi, an altar boy raised up in Elburgon, was arrested while out on bail after he was charged in court alongside NHIF Chief Finance Director Wilbert Kurgat for failing to comply with a court order requiring them to produce any documents required by investigators who are probing alleged misappropriation of funds at the corporation.
Kenyans are said to have lost billions of shillings at NHIF in dubious payments to suspicious hospitals.